I haven't updated this in a while! But things have been fairly busy over at Sharkbite. The practice spaces are nearly full, the B room is nearly complete, and we've got a couple of pretty epic sessions coming up. I've mainly been updating the J&E blog, so if you care to follow what we're up to go to www.jamesandevander.blogspot.com. We'll be starting to mix the Winters Fall stuff soon, as well as Summer of Glaciers. The new J&E record will be coming out on 500 Records on Oct. 27th! You can go to jande.muxtape.com to stream the record (as well as Awkward Turtle E.P.) and a new 5 song remix compilation we've made! -Adam

Been super busy. In the last month and a half I've finished :

• Mixing the We Be The Echo record (Mike Wells is mastering and it'll be done this week, will be posting a track soon).
• Mixing the Adam Farone record (getting mastered down in L.A. and should be done soon as well).
• Tracked a new American Steel record (Ryan will be mixing and Wells will be mastering).
• Tracked another 4 songs with David Fraiser engineering & Currado Rusticci producing for an Italian Pop artist by the name of Romeous (they're mixing in Italy now... What a hard life they live...).
• Tracked and mixed an E.P. for bay area metal band Invection (this record is pretty rad, I believe they're talking to Wells about mastering).
• Tracked 4 songs for Echodrones next record which they hope to have done by mid summer. (These songs are also amazing, really excited about this record).
• And last but not least, yesterday morning I recorded a 3rd grade Walnut Creek Elementary school class singing silly songs about fairy tales... I might post one of these just because it was so silly.

In other news, the label (500 Records) just released Grand Lakes new record Nevermint yesterday, they'll be promoting the record this week with 3 shows. The first being today at an Amoeba in-store, tomorrow (3/27) at the Lobot Gallery Release Show with Starfucker, Man/Miracle, and Guidance Councilor, and then again with Starfucker & Guidence Councilor at the Hemlock in SF on 3/28. Going to be a busy weekend! Not to mention the fact that they'll be recording 3 new songs on Tues. This record is great, head over to iTunes and purchase it or come out to a show!
Also, James & Evander have moved into a practice space at Jack London Rehearsal (YOU SHOULD TOO) with Form & Fate and are putting together a pretty cool live show. It'll be fairly different from the record with Russ (of F&F) doing live drumming duties and plans of colaborationg with Aimless' Jonny Latimer and Andrew Macy helping out with various guitars/bass/hand clapping/poetry reading/being rad. It'll be a cool interpitation of what the record is. Speaking of that record, I think it's mostly done tracking and really just needs to be mixed and mastered.

Enough rambling! Have you watched the last episode of Battlestar Gallactica?! I haven't... I'm so sad to see it end...
-Adam

Metal mania '09 is over! And I'd say it went pretty well. We knocked out all the tracking for the new Warbringer record and it'll get mixed by Zack Ohren in the coming weeks. Speaking of Zach, he's here at the bite and I'm assisting on the new Arsonists Get All The Girls record. Today was the start of drums, and they'll be tracking for about 2 weeks. I also was able to get in some overdubs for Man/Miracle this past week for there new record that was recorded at New & Improved with Eli Crews. We'll be headed over there next week to check out the mixes. Also, the Grand Lake record has been mixed and mastered and will be released on March 24th (digitally) and April 21st (physically) on 500 Records with a release show scheduled for March 27th at Lobot Gallery with Grand Lake, Man/Miracle, and Starfucker. It's going to be a great show!

-Adam

I uploaded a bunch of new songs into the player today, songs from Olehole, Exodus, Spark & Decay, and Mo'Fone. I should have songs from Grand Lake & Evacuee up soon as well.  Things are going well with Cormorant and the had Lewis from Judgement Day in today doing some cello work that sounded epic!
-Adam

So today is day 1 of Metal Mania '09! Huzzah!

I've basically got 4 days off this month. Today started me assisting with Billy Anderson again while we record Comorant. Its a pretty diverse mix of metal that they're playing, so it should be pretty interesting. Halfway through the month sees me engineering Warbringer with Gary Holt of Exodus producing and then it'll go to Zack from Castle Ultimate for mixing. After them (Feb. 1st) I'll be assisting Zack with Arsonists Get All the Girls for another 2 weeks. It's going to be pretty intense.

Also, I got an Ebow, so theres another fun toy to bring to sessions!

- Adam

Its been quite a while since my last update, but lots of things have been happening!

• The Cattle Decapitation record is finished and I believe being printed now. They shot a bunch of video that they edited down to about a half hour that they're including with the record and has some pretty silly stuff on it, as well as ridiculous guitar shredding...
• Worked on another record for Bottom with Billy which is currently in its mixing stages.
• Recorded some violin overdubs for Foxtail Brigades, which is a really interesting 2 piece of guitar and violin.
• Recorded overdubs for Matadon on the studios 2in. They are currently in New York mixing the tunes and I'll have copies of them up here when they're done.
• The next James & Evander record is coming along nicely with some guest appearances from The Aimless Never Miss, Form & Fate, Mo'Fone, and Evacuee which is always fun, and one of the new tracks will be on the Jan. release of Lower Class Revolt Vol. 3.
• Started a new Gabby Velazquez record, which is sorta acoustic/paul simony stuff, which is different from what I'm used to working with and pretty fun.
• And recored a 4 song E.P. with a woman named Kaya with Dre Johnson producing. It was spoken word poetry over African drums (djembe & dun dun) and a thing called a balophone (kinda like a xylophone but made of all wood).

The rest of the month as well as November will see the opening of 34 practice space by our new company Jack London Rehearsal, as well as finishing mixing Evacuee, more overdubs with Gabby, recording Adam Farrone and The VIR, as well as starting a new batch of songs for Caleb Nichols & The Bloody Heads. I believe Pat Spurgeon of Rogue Wave is filling in for drumming duties since Josh is out on the road with Port O'brien. Should be good. Will have more tracks in the player soon as well as pictures and videos from all these sessions!

-Adam

P.S. Forgot to mention the new Exodus record "There Will Be Blood" that I recorded is out now, so thats kind of crazy.

Been awhile since an update, but things have been fairly busy around the studio with sessions with Evacuee. We've got 9 songs tracked, with a few more vocals and guitar overdubs to do. But we have about 3 songs fully mixed with the others well on the way. One of these mixes will be headed to the 2nd Lower Class Revolt Comp put together by Mike & Zoe of Devil in the Woods. One of the new Form & Fate tracks will be on the comp as well. I moved in with "evander" from James & Evander and we've been working on a lot of new songs for the next E.P. "Hold your horses, they're getting lonely." Lots of cheezy goodness. This past week (and the coming 2) are tracking and mixing Cattle Decapitation with Zack Ohren and Billy Anderson. After they wrap up it'll be more recording and mixing with Evacuee. Not to mention the nearly 40 practice spaces that Sharkbite is building over the next couple of months.

The Chop have released "We Want It All" (you can hear "Signs" in the player to the right) free for download! Check it out!

-Adam
P.S.  Check out Bandloop.com!

Been kinda relaxed this first half of June. The sessions with Cloud Archive, The Chop!, and Death of a Party all went really well. The Chops tracks are off to mastering, Cloud Archive are busy tracking extra instruments and electronics, as is DOAP. Today I got a call (at about 6:30 am) from Billy Anderson because he had just broken his hand and I was supposed to assist with him at Sharkbite today, so now I'm sitting and waiting for Border Wars to show up so we can track drums for there new full length. Hopefully Billy will be back up and running soon!

Also, picked up a few new toys the past couple of weeks, one being a Roland Juno 6 and an Omnichord. Both are really killer instruments and have awesome sounds. So if we're doing a session together and you want to use them let me know and I'll make sure they're there. For the most part they'll live at Sharkbite though.

Phones ringing, bands here.

-Adam

Since the last update :
- I finished mixing the Mayne Smith record which is being mastered by Paul Stubblebine and will be released in mid June.
- Did the session with Exodus (which was crazy!) and the drums sounded killer, Tom sure knows how to play his kit!
- Mixed another two tunes with The Union Trade for their debut full length on Tricycle Records.
- Tracked a song for Evacuees forthcoming full length.
- Assisted on a session with Mars Volta drummer Thomas Pridgen (another ridiculously good drummer).
- And tracked 2 more songs this past weekend for the new Form & Fate record.
Been real busy, and the rest of May is shaping up to remain busy with tracking The Dandelion War and Sax & Drum band Mo'Fone, then next month I'll be mixing some tunes for The Chop and tracking some with Cloud Archive.
I have some new pictures up on my Flickr from these sessions if you feel like checking it out under the pictures section.

You should be watching Battlestar Galactica,
-Adam

Last week was busy with Mixing the Mayne Smith album and getting to track a new song for Judgement Day which was amazing. We tracked one full song, and then  tracked some violins on another track. It sounded epic! Anton might be doing some tracking on some Form & Fate songs which would be awesome. Next week sees tracking Exodus... Which is awesome. They're going to be tracking some tunes over at the bite with myself, and then sending the songs over to Andy Sneap for the mixing.

Thats all for now, check out the picture section for some shots of the Judgement Day session.

-Adam